vanishing point
Where parallels meet
The vanishing point is the spot on the horizon where parallel lines appear to converge—railroad tracks meeting in the distance, a corridor narrowing to nothing.
It's fundamental to perspective drawing and painting.
Figuratively, something that recedes to the vanishing point shrinks to insignificance: Support for the proposal has dwindled to the vanishing point.
Apparent earth-sky meeting
- convergenceProcess of approaching sameness
- foreshorteningDepicting depth through size
- depthDistance below surface
- linear perspectiveDepth through converging lines
parallel lines · infinity · recession · diminution · sightline · picture plane · eye level · orthogonal
Gradual loss of intensity
- dissolutionBreaking up completely
- thresholdPoint of beginning
- boundaryLine marking a limit
- limitMaximum allowed extent
extinction · oblivion · erasure · effacement · diminishing · receding · imperceptibility · nothingness
horizon
Apparent earth-sky meeting
- convergenceProcess of approaching sameness
- foreshorteningDepicting depth through size
- depthDistance below surface
linear perspective · parallel lines · infinity · recession · diminution · sightline · picture plane · eye level · orthogonal · projection
fading
Gradual loss of intensity
- dissolutionBreaking up completely
- thresholdPoint of beginning
- boundaryLine marking a limit
limit · extinction · oblivion · erasure · effacement · diminishing · receding · imperceptibility · nothingness · void
- artfine art, Renaissance, painters, masterpieces, paint
- compositionbalance, symmetry, asymmetry, proportion, layout
- illusionsmirage, optical illusion, hallucination, illusion, afterimage
- vanishingdisappearance, disappear, fading, dissolving, evaporate
- art elementsline, shape, color, value, space
- art historyart history, Renaissance, Baroque, Impressionism, modern art
vanishing pointpoint of origin
Where something starts
viewpoint · vantage point · foreground · picture plane · focal point
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